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The Potter's Hands Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| PARENTING SPECIAL KIDS NETWORK | $10,000 |
| POST-PARTUM SUPPORT INT'L | $10,000 |
| CHINLE PLANTING HOPE | $10,000 |
| MOMS IN PRAYER INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE | $10,000 |
| GOLDEN PAWS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NMNeighborhood Ministries Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +311%
- MIMoms in Prayer Int'l9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +103%
- CFCHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $102k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UYURBAN YOUTH WORKERSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- 1N19 NORTH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2017 · $12k
- STSKYES THE LIMIT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +567%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The purpose of IMI is reaching nationals through nationals in ministry.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Jesus for asia exists for one purpose: to see as many people as possible accept eternal life before it's too late. we do this by going to the least reached section of the planet and by calling the church to re-engage its mission. in other…
PPM exists to build up encourage and assist the local Church in reaching and serving their communities for Christ. Primary activities include planning and leading international and domestic mission trips in accordance with this mission as…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
To strengthen church planters through discernment, training, coaching and continuing education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic Ministry Center and the most unlike its peers is 19 North Community Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Moms in Prayer Int'l ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHINLE PLANTING HOPE ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION ↗
- Who funds PARENTING SPECIAL KIDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds 19 NORTH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SKYES THE LIMIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CHAIN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Potter's Hands Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Postpartum Support International — 43% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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